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Thang Thoi Truong

Software Engineer

I just graduated from UT Austin where I spent 4 wonderful years honing the art of coding full stack websites, visualizing data, and researching AI. I was fortunate to be advised by Professor Mishra for my honors thesis, and I got to work on cool AI products at UT Austin Liberal Arts.

I love AI and I can’t wait to build products that impact people! My latest product NeonAI aims to bring light into AI models. I’m super excited to spend the next 5 years at Auburn for my PhD under the guidance of Professor Anh Totti Nguyen.

In my spare time, you can catch me at the cinema, playing tennis, solving Leetcode, or at the gym!

news

Aug 2025
Started PhD at Auburn University. 🐯
May 2025
Graduated from UT Austin! πŸŽ“
May 2025
Published paper on Cardiovascular Risks. πŸ“„

products

NeonAI
Aims to bring light into AI models. Check it out
OfCourt
Badminton E-commerce platform. Check it out
Learn Anything
Interactive learning platform. Check it out

Natural Language Processing iSchool Research Group

Austin, TX | May 2024 – May 2025

NLP Developer | Python, Bash, SeamlessM4T

  • Architected a multilingual NLP data pipeline translating 89.6GB of parallel corpora into 28 languages using SeamlessM4T
  • Co-authored PolyverseVLM, a lightweight vision-language model optimized for GPUs using 80M SigLIP and 500M Qwen2
  • Optimized batch parallelism for model fine-tuning, reducing training time by 40% on limited hardware.

Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services

Austin, TX | Aug 2022 – May 2025

Junior Software Developer | Python, R, Laravel PHP, Node JS, Docker, Tableau, WordPress

  • Developed 20+ full-stack web apps and dashboards applying modular codebases and REST API integration
  • Migrated legacy Drupal systems to Laravel, implementing advanced filtering and user management features
  • Revamped three WordPress websites with custom plugins and UI/UX upgrades, increasing user engagement by 40%
  • Implemented PDF viewer for UT Instapoll, supporting 50,000+ users across UT Austin classrooms

AI Health Lab [website]

Austin, TX | Nov 2023 – March 2024

NLP Research Assistant | BERTopic, Python, Matplotlib, Google Colab

  • Applied BERTopic with UMAP + HDBSCAN to uncover 20 thematic clusters in a corpus of 12,146 LLM paper abstracts
  • Validated clustering integrity using 5 comparative techniques (bar chart, dendrogram, heatmap, topic graph, PCA plot)
  • Conducted a survey of 12 foundational LLM papers, manually labeling to identify 3 previously unreported research themes

Claudius Legal Intelligence Inc.

Remote | June 2023 – Aug 2023

Software Engineering Intern | Python, Django, Figma

  • Developed 4 production-ready web pages in Django, integrating interactive frontends based on Figma designs with Bootstrap
  • Led UI/UX testing iterations with feedback from legal professionals, improving usability scores by 18% in internal testing

Publication 1

Truong, T. T., Truong, T. T., Tran, B. N. V., Sabet, C. J., Rutledge-Jukes, H., Odat, R. M., Luu, D., Le, M. H. N., Nguyen, T. T. H., Theologou, T., Harky, A., Nguyen, D., & Huynh, P. K. (2025). Integrating advanced sensing technologies and artificial intelligence for predicting cardiovascular risks: A data-driven approach to modern healthcare. In Cutting-Edge Diagnostic Technologies in Cardiovascular Diseases (pp. 180–219). CRC Press. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.1201/9781003481621-11/...

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